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Resons or choosing the California End of Life Option Act, and other life memories.

Award-winning financial journalist Diana B. Henriques discusses her life, significant stories and events in her career, her books, and conditions in journalism over the years. As a staff writer for The New York Times from 1989 to 2012 and as...

Seto You, age 92/93 or 97/98, is interviewed by his son, Ed You, age 26, about his early days in the USA. He arrived from China in 1916, worked as a cook in this country well into his 80's. He...

1949-1956 College, Williams & Harvard, being in the army in Europe.

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Brielle, New Jersey, Rosemary van der Net (14) interviews her older cousin Olivia (23). Olivia shares her struggles of growing up in a divorced household and her education. She also shares about...

Edward Bloch (87) talks with his cousin Meredith Skeath (71) about his father helping Jewish families escape from Europe before WWII, his courtship of Carol, how they started a family, and the importance of finding work you love and realizing...

An interview

where my mother was when she heard about the tragedy and how she felt

In this interview, I am heard discussing what growing up was like before social media and the Internet was as popular as it is today. Not only do we discuss what life was like growing up without the Internet, we...

Robert Carey (age 99), aka Pops, talks about his life growing up in New York City, his time in the service, and his family.

On May 20th, 2019 Emma Law interviews her mother, Dawn law, in Superior Colorado asking about her life experiences from the late 1900s into the 2000s. Dawn describes growing up in a mostly white neighborhood in Canandaigua, New York. She...

While spending time at home on Thanksgiving break, I had the opportunity to interview my uncle about his fire department experiences focusing on the tragedies that occurred on September 11th, 2001. He shared his experience in the fire department and...

Grace and Isabel(16) interview their grandmother about her father’s family, immigration, and experiences in America, and our Grandfather talks about about his family too.

this interview is about my mom Yolanda Lugo and her life immigrating from Puerto Rico to the big city of New York

I interviewed my grandma

An interview of someone’s perspective and take away from the effects of 9/11

In this interview on November 22, 2017 a young girl and her great uncle go over how it was like to be a neurosurgeon years ago. She learns all about him and his memories, struggles, and achievements as a neurosurgeon....

Steve Desroches (48) talks to Jeffrey Roberson about his career as drag queen Varla Jean Merman, and in particular his time and work in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Aaron Novy (27) talks with his grandfather-in-law, Frank Pomposelli Sr. (87) about his childhood, family and upbringing in the Bronx as an Italian-American. June 22, 2012

John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) about his lifelong work against nuclear weapons and nuke tests, beginning with revulsion of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and reaction to a full page New York Times...

This is an interview about September 11th with my mom who was two blocks away from the World Trade Center.

The story of my grandfather who went from a kid struggling in school, to a cook in the military, then to a funeral director, and finally to a school psychologist.

I interviewed Miguel Veras on his immigration story from the Dominican Republic to the United States.

My dad's name is Edgar Perez. Today's date is November 24, 2018. I wanted to ask him about his work at New York City Transit. I wanted to learn more about how it's impacted his and our families life.

Sara McCusker, 15 years old, interviewed her grandfather Joseph McCusker, 88, at his home in Manchester, Vermont. Sara wanted to know about his childhood, youth, and adulthood, including what he remembers about raising her father.